The sheik [Osama bin Laden] is, thank God, still alive and this hurts Bush who promised to his people to kill Osama, - Mohammed Omar

Now that we are destroying false idols, the world has made a drama out of it. The Muslims in the world, particularly the Afghan Muslims, should use their common sense," declared Taleban chief Mulla Muhammad Omar. He tried to prove his common sense by saying: "I would like to ask you -- do you prefer to be called statue-destroyers or statue-sellers?

Believe in God, for with the grace of God, the American rockets will go astray and we will be saved.

I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle.… We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same,